View allAll Photos Tagged epp
North Weald station is a former London Underground station in Essex, England. Located between Epping and Blake Hall stations on the Central line the station is part of the Epping Ongar Railway. It serves the village of North Weald.
Epping Underground Station, 13 July 2024. The station was built by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) and opened in April 1865 on their extension from Loughton and Ongar. The station was to a standard GER design for the period.
The London Passenger Transport Board’s New Works Programme of 1935 proposed extending the Central Line from its easternmost terminus at Liverpool Street through new tunnels to Stratford and thence (through further tunnels) over the ex-GER, now London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), branch from Leytonstone to Epping (and ultimately Ongar) which the LPTB would take over.
Although considerable works to the extension had begun by 1939, the outbreak of WWII put completion on hold. Post-war, works restarted and the Central Line reached Epping (and Ongar) in September 1949. The BR(ER) steam-hauled services south of Epping stopped at the same time.
Although the Central Line had notionally been extended to Ongar, initially it was unelectrified so a steam-hauled shuttle service was operated by BR(ER) on the London Transport Executive’s behalf. The line was eventually electrified in 1957, although the Epping – Ongar stretch was still operated as a shuttle service. Unfortunately, usage remained very light and this section of the Central Line closed in September 1994.
Pictured is the LNER lattice-work footbridge of late 1930’s.
Using Tsukineko All-Purpose Inks on fabric. Tutorial at: www.craftypod.com/2014/11/14/how-make-epp-colorwash-star-...
Reminiscent of a scene from the Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, or maybe a picture by Constable ? Shot in very poor light and high wind.
The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway run by a small number of paid staff and team of volunteers in south-west Essex, England. It was the final section of the Great Eastern Railway branch line, later the London Underground's Central line from Loughton via Epping to Ongar, with intermediate stations at North Weald and Blake Hall. The line was closed by London Underground in 1994 and sold in 1998. It reopened between 2004 and 2007 as a preserved railway offering a volunteer-run Class 117 DMU service between Ongar and Coopersale. A change of ownership in 2007 led to the line being closed for restoration to a heritage steam railway, which opened on 25 May 2012.